Latest Android update of Sygic

FrequentFlyer · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 2:55 pm Post subject: Dash Cam

The , paid for, dash cam option seems to work well on my HTC One, but as I haven't noticed any comments I assume those that have it are happy ?
Because of the angle I have my phone set to, the dash cam picks up everything to the nearside , and including , the centre white line on the road. I imagine if I switched the phone to Horizontal it would probably pick up the whole road in front., but my current holder won't allow me to do that and anyhow I've always been vertical.

spile · Regular Visitor Joined: May 08, 2004 Posts: 163

It took a little getting used to but the new UI is great. I'd recommend persevering with the layout. Great to see the searching for imported POI's bug has been fixed. Just one dislike in that the direction of destination arrow has been removed. Have asked Sygic for it to be put back.

M8TJT · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 9:57 am Post subject:

Their new map-centric (whatever that means) shows the map, but precious little else. And WTF is the big white search bar all about? If I am searching for something, I don't give a toss about the map until I've found what I want, so why clutter up the map with a search bar?

Rick-uk · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 5:01 pm Post subject:

FrequentFlyer · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 5:56 pm Post subject: ?

Well, I for one am still struggling, although I accept that it's probably me. I've used Sygic since just about day one and got used to the odd peculiarities.
However, if this latest version is supposed to be a whole lot easier to use, then I am more confused than ever, in my opinion it is nowhere near as 'easy' as the last version. I've sorted out my home address afterm many attempts and accidental deletions etc, but they certainly don't make it easy.
Now I have a problem with my contacts....slow to start loading and then just keeps stopping, so I've now given up on that one.
Any thoughts, (and I'm still running my HTC One with CoPilot as well fortunately) ?

M8TJT · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 6:09 pm Post subject:

To quote that well known strictly judge. "It's a disaster dahling".
Really glad I didn't update on my phone.

Just had an email from Sygic. The old android version can be downloaded from
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i267in1yd7n255c/SygicNavi-release.apk?dl=0
and a new manual at
http://www.manula.com/manuals/sygic/sygic-next-generation-for-android/1/en/topic/prologue

walkerx · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 8:00 pm Post subject:

if you running on android device why import the PGPSW database?

Just use the CamerAlert app and have it run in background you'll then get nice big warning on screen and voice alert if over-limit when approaching camera

also have they sorted out text input yet on the app?

ie enter a search term but press backspace to make changes it previously couldn't cope and you had to fully re-enter anything

M8TJT · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 12:15 am Post subject:

No. They haven't fixed that. Damn stupid isn't it?

Rick-uk · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 6:47 pm Post subject:

It appears to eat data as well now

That 22MB was used when I started the app and searched for an imported POI by entering its unique refernce number. I didn't even use it for navigation or traffic. I guess it searches online at the same time as it searches locally.

I tried it again at home later just searching for a POI and browsing the map screens.

At this rate of data use I will have to uninstall as I can not afford for it to use that amount
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M8TJT · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 10:34 pm Post subject:

Go back to the old version that I posted the link to above.
It shouldn't eat that much data. I'll try out my latest version that I have on my Nexus 10 and see if that does it. It never used to eat data, in fact, pretty much none unless you have traffic, and then not much at all.

Rick-uk · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 4:37 am Post subject:

Overnight without it running it added another 30mb. I have had to force close it.

I could not install the previous version as it continually failed while downloading resources so I ended up doing a clean install of the new version.
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M8TJT · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 9:03 am Post subject:

Are you talking about reinstalling the old version John?
I tried my new version and did some searching and its data usage went up from 9.5Mb to 9.6Mb. Whilst this is not excessive, I would still like to know what it is doing.

Have you tried contacting Sygic about your problem Rick? Still, I suppose that they would reply with a non-answer.
Here's Sygic's take on it Here with a contact form

M8TJT · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 10:23 am Post subject:

Live traffic only uses a few 10's of Kb, not multiple Mbs, so quite what's going on with the OP's setup, I don't know.

M8TJT · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 10:28 am Post subject:

FrequentFlyer · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 10:31 am Post subject: ?

I'm about to have a go at reinstalling the older version.
Before I do, and as a non techy, any do's or dont's I need to be aware of? ie Do I have to completely delete this new version, maps and all? I'm running on an HTC One. Thanks.

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